rundown on my newest oc [severance-based], daichi 'danny' miyazaki ...
he's based on an oc i've posted before but he was fandomless then and i think his plot device and theme would work perfectly in this setting.
his first name is daichi, but he's better known at work and school as 'danny', however his mom and close friends are welcome to call him 'daichi'.
used to live in the bay area until he was around twelve years old. his dad worked for the lumon branch there, then moved closer to the branch featured in the show. up until his father's death, he was not a severed employee, but worked in the research and design department. it was until sometime near or after his death that severance became an option.
danny and his father were very close, so his death resulted in a heavy impact on him and his mother's life. he was in his sophomore year of college when it happened. soon after, he dropped out of school, lost motivation, and even had trouble keeping in contact with his mom.
however, after his mother became temporarily but seriously ill, he was back in contact with her to help her through her illness and keep up with her doctor's appointments. it was when she was gradually recovering, that lumon reached out to offer him a job on the severed floor.
lumon had always provided good benefits, but danny knew very little about his dad's actual work with them. he always told him that the projects were mostly prototypes and he couldn't share much of what he did. plus, the times he did interact with any of his father's coworkers, they were a little strange. however, having not many other prospects, and at the encouragement of his mother, he took the job.
severance itself was what he was most apprehensive about. he was well aware of the protests against it, and before losing contact with his friends, remembered what they had said about it. however, as he thought about it, the prospect that there could be a successful version of him that wasn't impacted by the death of his father appealed to him. he loved his father dearly, but the grief had swallowed him whole and he wasn't confident that he could ever really surface from it. so, he wanted a version of him that could survive that and be successful in the company his father worked for even if he wouldn't know what it was.
known on the severed floor as danny m., he works for a small department comprising of himself and one other worker who serve the entire floor as an it department. they are advancement & instrumentation, or better known as, I&A. they update the computers and upload new software as needed.
six months into his work, he is contacted by an anonymous messenger, warning him about lumon. from there, he becomes suspicious of their motives and looks into his father's death once more.
